Scientists and Inventors - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which physician-scientist was recognized for discovering penicillin in 1928?	Alexander Fleming	100%
Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?	Isaac Newton	100%
Niels Bohr is most famous for which of the following theories?	Theory of atomic structure	100%
Albert Einstein is most famous for which of the following theories?	Theory of relativity	100%
Who invented the light bulb in 1883?	Thomas Edison	100%
Which inventor, scientist, and engineer is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone?	Alexander Graham Bell	90%
Who did the Catholic Church sentence to prison because he said that Earth orbited the Sun?	Galileo Galilei	90%
Who invented the railway locomotive in 1814?	George Stephenson	90%
Who first stated that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction?	Isaac Newton	90%
Who is the first female Nobel Prize winner?	Marie Curie	90%
Which scientist is the founder of the quantum theory?	Max Planck	90%
Which scientist first said that the Sun was the center of the universe and that the Earth and the planets orbited the Sun?	Nicolaus Copernicus	90%
What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?	Printing press	90%
Who invented the dots and dashes code for sending messages?	Samuel Morse	90%
Who invented the first battery?	Alessandro Volta	80%
Who discovered the periodic table?	Dmitri Mendeleev	80%
What did the founder of the Nobel Prize invent?	Dynamite	80%
Edmund Jenner is responsible for saving countless lives thanks to his invention. What was it?	Vaccine	80%
Which scientist improved the telescope and constructed the first one that could be used to observe the planets?	Galileo Galilei	70%
Who developed the earliest effective vaccine against rabies?	Louis Pasteur	60%
What was the name of the famous scientist Röntgen who invented X-rays?	Wilhelm	60%
Who was Serbian scientist Mileva Maric married to?	Albert Einstein	50%

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